iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When the “censorship industrial complex” myth was just getting started, in Fall 2022, I got a public records request from the AG’s office of Missouri looking for all my emails related to my team’s election rumor research. The Missouri AG at that time? Eric Schmitt. What a tool.

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The Cloud is Down @thecloudisdown.com · 26/09/2026

I've not yet had a chance to read the rest of this series, but "The Metric Is Not The Mission" is spot on. Definitely worth reading.

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The Cloud is Down @thecloudisdown.com · 25/09/2026

For a very long time, I believed that I was an anomaly: A technology worker who disliked technology. That has become common. Those of us who have worked with this the longest are the ones who despise it the most.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sure, on the one hand Muse doesn't really do anything, but on the other hand it opens up a massive attack surface on literally all your shit

arstechnica.com

Muse, Meta's extraordinarily privileged AI assistant, has a serious 0-day

A simple ClickFix attack is only one way to completely hijack the new agent.

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David Brin @davidbrin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

'Inspired by the bravery and patriotism of Apple and Google, we are changing the name of South Park to SOUTH AMERICA," creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker wrote in a statement. Nice to know who the Putinists behind Trump will put against a wall before they get to me. www.bbc.com/news/article...

bbc.com

South Park creators rename show 'South America' in apparent dig at Trump

Since beginning his second term, the US president has said he wanted to use the word 'America' to rename a lake, a gulf and even a US state.

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The Cloud is Down @thecloudisdown.com · 31/08/2026

Google, 1999: "Don't Be Evil" Google, 2026: "Don't Have a Spine" #lakeontario #lakeamerica #cowards #google #spineless

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The Cloud is Down @thecloudisdown.com · 30/08/2026

"...risks associated with AI are not just a matter of bad publicity. They are based on hard facts and entail substantial consequences." Bill Blunden's article at Counterpunch is a concise explanation of the risks of urestricted AI. #ai #billblunden #counterpunch www.counterpunch.org/2026/08/28/m...

counterpunch.org

My Last Supper at A.I.’s Diner of the Damned

“Balance” is Difficult When You’re Enamored with the Benefits Counterpunch is where my tenure as a writer kicked off nearly two decades ago. So it seems

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The Cloud is Down @thecloudisdown.com · 27/08/2026

Your monitor may be putting junk ads on your computer. This is not just hypothetical: LG used a "driver update" to shove ads for McAfee to unsuspecting users, and Samsung and Acer's privacy policies allow sharing user data. #privacy #lg #arstechnica #scharonharding arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...

arstechnica.com

Ads and tracking infiltrated TVs. Now they're coming for monitors.

Monitor vendors are playing with fire.

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Dr. Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Everything coming out of RFK Jr’s mouth is why Brandolini’s Law exists.🧪

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Lontar 론타르 @lontar.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Getting unreasonably angry at this

Wikipedia sesrch result for firmware with a summary that begins with "firmware is software"

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Fly @flockofwords.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

What the deep fried fuck?

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Notepad++ @notepad-plus-plus.org · 14/06/2026

By staying in X, you are the accomplice of Nazis.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Trump just invoked an arcane legal provision to levy even more tariffs on Canadian imports. Let me remind you: he still owes us all a refund from his last round of illegal tariffs.

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

So we are in a recession but haven't faced the real crash yet which is most likely to happen during the next Democratic presidency like the timebomb they always seem to maliciously plan thenextweb.com/news/tech-gi...

thenextweb.com

Big Tech is hiding $1.65tn in off-balance-sheet AI debt

A Nikkei study found Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta and Oracle carry $1.65tn in off-balance-sheet debt for AI, more than they report. It is all legal.

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💙🪄 Keep Rising 🪄💙 @keeprising.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

🔴🔥‼️ MORE of this 🔥 rep rashida tlaib • russell vought

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Jake Tapper, long-suffering Philly sports fan @jaketapper.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Just asking Grok some questions

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

We need more rich people with normal interests like "your movie sounds neat" instead of, like, white fertility rates.

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Dr. Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Police pushed out a couple of the attendees at a diabetes scientific meeting. The crime: Passing out printouts of a recent publication calling out the administration for destroying our research infrastructure. The right to free speech was infringed upon. Censorship is real. We have to stand up.

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Pete Quily @pqpolitics.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Ivanka Trump & Jared Kushner are building a 3460 acre resort on an Albanian island Thousands in Albania are protesting, and at the same time this isn't unique This is how Jared and Ivanka use their proximity to power — building developments for the rich, at our expense youtube.com/shorts/WEu9q...

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The Kushner Land Grab in Albania is Part of a Bigger Scheme

YouTube video by More Perfect Union

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Irritated Llama @irritatedllama.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

He actually posted this. Please NASA, fly him yo the Moon and get him to take his helmet off!

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The Cloud is Down @thecloudisdown.com · 04/06/2026

Does anyone else regard the price of Bitcoin as a proxy for measuring the level of insanity in modern society? Oh, sure, we're still nuts. But on the bright side, we're only half as crazy as we were 8 months ago. #bitcoin #cryptocurrency #crypto #insanity

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Say what you will about Caligula, but he appointed an *entire* horse to a government position, not just the rear end.

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The Cloud is Down @thecloudisdown.com · 02/06/2026

OK, so I only read the first half of the first sentence of the summary, but this means it prevents spontaneous human combustion, right? Awesome news!!

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The Cloud is Down @thecloudisdown.com · 30/05/2026

The Zip Drive was a genuinely terrific device. Its successor, however - the Jaz Drive - was an unreliable piece of garbage. #retro #iomega #1990s

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swan @nightswan.be · 21/05/2026

Hardware breaks, software is broken

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Science Magazine @science.org · 05/05/2026

Deepfakes are everywhere, but digital forensics investigators are fighting back. Learn more: scim.ag/42dMPBg

To verify images, digital forensics investigators will often check whether the geometry of the scene is realistic. In a real photo, lines that run parallel in reality—like floor tiles—should meet at a single vanishing point. In this image, however, the dotted lines do not meet in a single point, indicating it is a fake.
Image: an AI-generated image of soldiers marching down a hallway in three lines, wearing fatigues and carrying rifles. Four dotted white lines have been added over the image, running along the floor tiles visible in the foreground and extending back to where the vanishing point should be, behind the soldiers. Instead of meeting in a single point, the lines all cross at different points.

Investigators also examine reflections. The lines connecting points on an object to matching points in its mirror image run parallel in reality, so similarly should meet at a vanishing point. In this image, the lines again do not converge on one point, revealing it to be a fake.
Image: An AI-generated image of a plastic cartoon dinosaur toy with its reflection visible in a small mirror. Four dotted white lines are layered over the image, connecting points on the toy with the same points on its reflection: the top of its eye, the end of its jaw, its hand, and its foot. The lines extend out to the side of the image, where they all cross at different points rather than meeting at a single point.

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Jacob Rubashkin @rubashkin.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Burchett is right: the most DC thing ever *is* a member of Congress blaming the city for something he and his colleagues did themselves.

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DD Coutts @deedeecoutts.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Isn’t that the truth.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Just to go back to basics: I once worked on a (winning) presidential campaign. Something too obvious for anyone to mention was: "Don't get into a fight with the Pope over who knows more about Jesus." These people are morons.

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Gary @cytherian.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

The real problem with data centers: they inherently create a serious pollution problem. There is no "closed-loop system" cooling those centers. They consume large amounts of water and produce toxic byproducts. Studies are compromised to hide these problems. REJECT! /P.1 #datacenters #pollution

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PCI Guru @jbhall56.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Holy shit, I made a Downfall meme back when we were renegotiating our CBA that went pretty viral, but this is brilliant. It’s fantastic all the way through, and then the last three seconds sent me into orbit.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

US government rn

A cartoon of a news report. The picture shows a government official doing a press conference flanked by goons.
The headline reads “A man attacked federal bullets with his body”
Underneath the picture is a quote saying “those bullets had families”

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The Cloud is Down @thecloudisdown.com · 23/01/2026

What does it mean when the status page for Microsoft services is one of the things that's down? I'm going to take a wild guess and say that the Microsoft outage is not yet resolved. Maybe this is a good time to sell my domain "thecloudisdown.com." #microsoftoutage #cloudoutage #thecloudisdown

A screen capture taken on January 22, 2026, showing the status page for Microsoft's cloud services is itself currently unavailable.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

BREAKING NEWS: Actual facts appear for the first time on "Truth" Social.

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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon

One panel comic with one person saying to another: Philip K Dick, Ray Bradbury. Like so many others in tech, I draw inspiration from completely misunderstanding those authors

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The Cloud is Down @thecloudisdown.com · 18/12/2025

These innumerate fuckwits are in charge of the economy.

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Ⓜ 3️⃣ 3️⃣ 🌌 @m-33.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Today's update of All modern digital infrastructure meme #meme #allmoderndigitalinfrastructure

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Dr. Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

This is brilliant! 🧪“The Monster Slash” By @ellecordova.bsky.social on IG She performs a song about the cuts to the government agencies that impact our daily lives.

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